The Cottonwood Creek Watershed Group (CCWG) will begin construction on a community garden at Evergreen Middle School to open in April, CCWG Director Brynn Nolan said last week, thanks to a $7,500 grant from the Tehama County Community Action Partnership.
Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company’s Engineering Technology Center in Chicago has received LEED Silver certification by the U.S. Green Building Council , further advancing the company’s goal to leverage high-performance design across its existing facilities.
Legal hurdles continue as construction resumes on new Hanover High School.
EVERETT — Contractors literally have been placed between a rock and a hard place as they work on a $10.2 million remodel and expansion at Jefferson Elementary School.
Higher education likely will take a cut in the next budget year, at least 5.2 percent. But college officials are hopeful that their campus building projects will get a financial boost.
ROCHESTER — An especially wet spring and fall, along with bitterly cold weather last month, are delaying two of the Rochester School District’s largest construction projects ever — a new intermediate school on its East Main campus and a fieldhouse on the Illinois 29 campus.
From California’s groundbreaking new green building codes to breakthroughs in water conservation, climate change, energy efficiency and transportation, sustainability has moved from concept to implementation, and California government is leading the way.